Under pressure: Nick Pollard is being called upon by MPs to publish a new version of his report into why Newsnight shelved an investigation into Jimmy Savile

The chairman of the BBC’s £3 million inquiry into the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal is under pressure to correct his report after revealing he may have been misled by the corporation’s executives.

MPs are demanding that Nick Pollard, who headed an inquiry into why BBC2’s Newsnight shelved an investigation into Savile, publish a new version of his report so he can provide details of his concerns.

Their intervention follows an appearance by Mr Pollard on Radio 4’s The Media Show last week in which he admitted senior staff may have misled his inquiry.

Mr Pollard told the programme he
thought excuses offered by some BBC executives were not completely
credible, adding: ‘We didn’t get to the point where we could say this is
precisely what happened and why – partly because of conflicting
recollections, or no recollections offered to us.’

Tory
MP Rob Wilson has written to Mr Pollard urging him to detail his
concerns in a ‘new chapter’ to the initial report, which concluded that
Newsnight’s decision not to proceed with its investigation was not the
result of undue influence from BBC bosses.

A spokesman said the BBC had accepted the report’s findings and had ‘nothing further to add’.